Reign of Gaming

Everyone in this game believes that they know best. Everyone thinks that "Well since this is what I've seen that works it must be strong" and generally when you see something that works, the general concenous is that it is indeed strong. That's not really the case with League but it kinda is at the same time because everyone has different experiences at all types of elo of whats "strong" and what's not. Everyone might like to bash 1200 elo players because they're considered "low elo" players who don't know anything but you know what the 1200 elo players do know what's best at 1200 elo because they're the ones that play in that bracket of elo. When lower elo players complain about something it's not because they're there to cause trouble and complaining for the sake of complaining. It's because these players literally have trouble countering some champions.

Riot knows this. Riot knows that there's champs like Xin Zhao who literally barely show up in higher elo let alone competitive play but they can't buff him up too much because he dominates a lot of lower elo games because of the way his kit is setup. He snowballs INCREDIBLY well and that's an issue for players who don't know how to counter champions snowballing or know how to work together as a team to stop that fed champion. You really have to look at each elo bracket 1200-1500-1700-1900 etc.. As their own meta and that's exactly what they are. People don't know what the other meta's are and like to judge, criticize, and sometimes even bash each other over what they've come to know as the truth and in reality everyone is correct in their own way.

The pro scene does not make sense to the 1200 scene because champs like Katarina and Yi will steamroll that elo but don't stand much of a chance the higher elo you go. It's just an elo thing and at all types of elo there's different meta's for that elo so the people claiming that others are wrong are often just talking about their personal experiences and that's at whatever elo they're currently sitting at which gives them their opinion and out look at League of Legends.

The cool thing about League of Legends is actually how many "metas" we really have. From all over the world champions like Singed, Ezreal, and Annie are very popular in China, while Skarner, Hecarim, and Nocturne are very popular in Korea. Those area's have different Meta's for what the most popular bans are for them. Is one meta wrong just because we in NA use differently then what the European players and the Asian players use? Not at all. It's just our own personal experience of what players we have in our respected area's had great success with. I mean really just think about it. If someone was playing X champion all the time and was doing good on it in NA. Then some other players copied that player playing X champion and they had success with it. It just trickles down to other players and other elo's throughout the area that they reside and that's really how meta's are born. It's born from players personal experiences and what others take from it.

So in reality everyone is right to some extent about what's good and what's bad. I find this quote pretty much sums up what I am trying to say. "The world doesn't beat to the sound of just one drum. What might be right you you, might not be right for some." and as cliche as it might be it fits EXACTLY how meta's are made and how the game works. No meta is the same, no meta stays the same, it's always changing, and it always will as long as Riot updates the game and even then if the game stopped getting updated we would still see changes in this game for years to come because it's what players make of the game which makes popular choices for others to play and ultimately decides what's good and what's bad.